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August 28 to September 8, five specimens are listed from the "Russian Possessions", 

 at Sitka. Then, September 26 to 27 he was at Fort Simpson, and October 8 to 26 in 

 the vicinity of Fort Rupert, at the north end of Vancouver Island. December 17 he 

 was back in Victoria. 



During 1863 he seems to have been at or near Victoria, with one trip to Fort 

 Rupert, most of the time until at least the middle of December. There is a single 

 California record interpolated, of a Virginia Rail collected at Twelve-mile House, 

 San Jose Road, April 22, which may indicate a hurried trip to San Francisco. At 

 least such a trip would not conflict with the notebook entries. December 31, he was 

 at San Francisco once more. 



Early in 1864 there are numerous entries from the San Francisco Bay region up 

 to April 2. The scene of activities then shifts again to British Columbia. Collecting 

 was carried on about Victoria during May, June, and July. Then, abruptly, we find 

 him in the interior of the mainland, at Lac La Hache, September 6-9, at Soda Creek, 

 September 13, at Richfield, September 20-23, and at Alexandria, October 1. The 

 next entry is from near Victoria, November 1, and there are others from there until 

 December 31. 



In 1865, entries begin in the San Francisco Bay region March 27 and continue 

 there until the end of June. He was in Victoria again October 1-3, and back to San 

 Francisco by November 13. In 1866, we find two pages of entries from Los Angeles, 

 comprising a series of "marsh blackbirds" shot March 21-23. He was again in San 

 Francisco in April, and continuously until the latter part of August. On December 

 10 he was in Victoria. In 1867, he was in Victoria throughout the year save for trips 

 to islands off the coast of Washington in June and again in the fall (October 22 to 

 November 3). The last entry in the notebook is for January 17, 1868, but this fills 

 the book, and entries may have been continued in another volume. 



There are, naturally, many items of decided interest in these notebooks, far too 

 many for repetition here. One or two such may, however, be cited as examples. 



Hepburn made two trips to the Farallon Islands, June 10 to 16, 1854, and again 

 June 19 to July 5, 1859. On the first trip not many entries were made, but on the 

 second trip fifty-seven specimens were catalogued, not at all a bad showing, considering 

 that they were all water birds. They are, vv^ith one exception, species that are known 

 to be abundant on the islands at the present time. The exception is the Rhinoceros 

 Auklet {Cerorhinca monocerata) , called by Hepburn the Horned Guillemot. This 

 is of especial interest in view of the facts regarding the previous occurrence of this 

 species on the Farallones recently brought to light by Grinnell (Condor, vol. 28, 1926, 

 pp. 37-40). Seven specimens are listed in his catalogue, six young birds and one adult. 

 They are all entered as "taken from the nest", and from the manner of entry (two 

 young each from nests nos. 1 and 2, and the adult and two young from nest no. 3) 

 the inference is drawn that he found two young constituting a brood in this species. 

 On June 29, 1865, there are entries of two Brandt Cormorants from the Farallones, 

 but they are annotated as killed by "one of the men". It seems likely that they were 

 brought from the Farallones to Hepburn in San Francisco, and that he himself was 

 not on the islands at that time. 



One of the notebooks contains an important comment upon an occurrence of the 

 Burrowing Owl on Vancouver Island, as follows: "On arriving at Fort Rupert in 

 1863, I found a few birds which had been shot there and left for me by my friend 

 Mr. Moffatt, among which was an owl unquestionably the A. hypugaea .... I was 

 not previously aware that any burrowing owls had ever been seen in Vancouver 

 Island." This specimen, if it was preserved, is not entered in his catalogue. It is 

 mentioned in Cooper's Ornithology of California (1870, p. 438, note). 



